Several candidates for Chicago mayor will have to defend the validity of their petitions to appear on the ballot as the race for City Hall’s top job intensifies.
Ja’Mal Green, left, drops off his nominating petitions for mayor of Chicago, as filing for the position begins on Nov. 21, 2022, at the Election Board Supersite in Chicago.
Just minutes before the 5 p.m. petition challenge deadline Monday, Green strolled into the Chicago Board of Elections and hit back at the Wilson campaign, alleging that almost 50,000 of the business owner’s 61,000-plus signatures constituted a “complete fraud.” Green claimed most pages of the petitions only had one or two “different handwritings” and the pages were also allegedly not numbered correctly, missing or duplicating pages at certain points.
Wilson alluded to Green and Hendon having had a confrontation four years ago over a similar petition dispute. But Wilson said Monday he had “nothing to do with that and nor would I get involved in that. … That’s something that they got to work out.” Mayoral candidate Willie Wilson, second from right, files his nominating petitions for mayor of Chicago on Nov. 21, 2022, at the Election Board Supersite in Chicago.
Election lawyers often encourage candidates to collect roughly three times the minimum number of signatures because challengers can use charges of forgery, fraud and more minor technicalities to invalidate signatures and knock opponents out of the race. It may take several weeks to resolve the objections against mayoral candidates.Beleaguered former Ald. Proco “Joe” Moreno, who is aiming to make a political comeback in the 1st Ward after legal woes, is also facing a challenge to his signatures.
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